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Proverbs 14:27

in Proverbs 14

The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, That one may depart from the snares of death.

KJV

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

This verse in Proverbs 14

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Bede

Commentary on Proverbs · Written before 735.

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, etc. This then is the hope of those who fear the Lord, that turning away from the ruin of death, they may merit to come to Him who says, I am the way, and the …

This site's exposition

He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence

on Proverbs 14:26-27

The fear of the Lord returns as the book's motto, given its reward: strong confidence and a place of refuge. It is a fountain of life, drawing a man from the snares of death. Bridges reads the two verses as one promise stated twice, as shelter and then as escape.

This site's exposition

The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life

The verse repeats 13:14, the fear of the LORD standing where the teaching of the wise stood. Adam Clarke gives the Hebrew as mekor chaiyim, the vein of lives, and hears in it the artery that carries blood from the heart. Both sayings end at the snares of death.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Bonaventure

Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 2 · Written in the 13th century.

proposed

And Solomon in Proverbs: "The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, that they may turn aside from the ruin of death." If you do not fear God, you have lost grace, you have lost justice, and you have lost true wisdom.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life - מקור חיים mekor chaiyim, the vein of lives. Another allusion to the great aorta which carries the blood from the heart to all the extremities of the body. Of this phrase, and the tree of lives, Solomon is particularly fond. See on Pro 4:23 (note); Pro 10:12 (note).
See the marginal reference and Pro 10:11 note.

The words behind it

7 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • יִרְאַ֣ת[the] fear of

    yiratH3374 →45 times

  • יְ֭הוָהYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • מְק֣וֹר[is] a fountain of

    mekorH4726 →18 times

  • חַיִּ֑יםlife

    chaiyimH2416 →498 times

  • לָ֝ס֗וּרto turn aside

    lasurH5493 →299 times

  • מִמֹּ֥קְשֵׁיfrom [the] snares of

    mimokesheiH4170 →27 times

  • מָֽוֶת׃death

    mavetH4194 →156 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Revelation 21:6

    And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.

    it leads to

    • John 7:37–38

      On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

    • John 4:10

      Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

    • Revelation 7:17

      For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”

    • John 4:14

      But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

    • Psalms 36:9

      For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.

  • Through

    Isaiah 33:6

    He will be the sure foundation for your times, a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD is Zion’s treasure.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 112:1–3

      Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.

    • Proverbs 19:23

      The fear of the LORD leads to life, that one may rest content, without visitation from harm.

  • Through

    Proverbs 22:5

    Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 16:17

      The highway of the upright leads away from evil; he who guards his way protects his life.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

Where this verse is studied

About Proverbs

The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Commentary on Proverbs; Bonaventure, Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 2; Charles Bridges, An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs; Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).